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Winter 2010, a Zurich hotel: the Prime Minister has come to present Britain’s
case to host the 2018 World Cup, attended by a chirpy, starstruck junior
aide (Alice Bailey-Johnson, very funny). Awkwardly, it is only days since Panorama
exposed damaging allegations against Fifa and Sepp Blatter. But Cameron
has support from two national icons: David Beckham and Prince William. Their
hotel rooms are bigger than his (amusing sliding walls fence him in), and to
his chagrin they both came on private jets.

In William Gaminara’s sly, beautifully judged reimagination of the ignominious
bid, a sycophantic Indian hotelier pops in and